Jan Tobacco - biography, photos. Yan tobacconist: "Deafened, bloody and terrible, I went to the tank - on the attack, in hand-to-hand combat. But there was no pain, there was only anger. I lay down under the tank, and we both died"

Yan Petrovich (Yakov Pinevich) Tabachnik(born July 31, 1945, Chernivtsi) - Soviet and Ukrainian pop virtuoso accordionist, composer, president major league masters of the world accordion. People's Artist of Ukraine, People's Deputy of Ukraine V, VI, VII convocations (Party of Regions of Ukraine). General producer and the host of the international television project "I have the honor to invite", the founder of the festival-competitions "Vladimir Krainev invites" and "AccoHoliday", the head of the Yan Tabachnik International Creative Center.

Biography

Born in Chernivtsi in a Jewish family. Father, Peter (Pinya) Borisovich, a front-line soldier, in his youth he was a promising athlete, in 1933 he was the champion of Bucharest in figure skating. Returning disabled after World War II, he worked as a textile engineer. Mother, Hanna Izrailevna, is a housewife. Elder sister Eva, philologist, teacher German language, now retired, lives in Israel.

Married to popular singer People's Artist Ukraine Tatyana Nedelskaya. Has three sons - Peter, Paul and Michael.

Education: Chernivtsi Cultural and Educational College (1970), Faculty of Music and Education of Melitopol State Pedagogical Institute (1990), Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2011).

He started learning to play the accordion at the age of 10, from the age of 13 he already performed by invitation. At the age of 16 he became an artist of the orchestra of the Kyiv State Circus on Stage, at the age of 18, in 1964, he performed on the stage as an artist of the Astrakhan Regional, then - the Kalmyk State Philharmonic.

In 1965-66 he was a musician-instrumentalist of the Georgian State Philharmonic Society (Adjar department). In 1967-68 he was an artist of the State Philharmonic Society of the Southern Coast of Crimea. Soloist of the Mark Gorelik Jazz Orchestra and the Shiko Aranov Jazz Orchestra.

In the late 60s he returned to Chernivtsi, where from 1970 to 1978 he worked as the director of the House of Culture of the Pervomaisky District.

In 1979, at the invitation of the Zaporozhye regional philharmonic society moved to Zaporizhia and until 1994 led the VIA "Surmy" created by him, the instrumental group "RIFF" and the group "New Day".

In 1995 he moved to Odessa, where he opened the Yan Tabachnik Municipal Theater of Music.

In 1997-1998 - Professor of the Department folk instruments Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.

In 2000 he moved to Kyiv, where he created the International creative center Yana Tabachnik.

The most successful projects of the Tabachnik-producer are the show "I have the honor to invite", which was released for 20 years and which during this time was watched by about a billion viewers around the world, a program in the format of an interview with famous people"I have the honor" and the annual International Competition-Festival professional performing arts "AccoHoliday", which was attended by young accordionists, performers of both pop-jazz and classical music from over 40 countries worldwide. The competition is also very popular among great performers: its jury included the famous musicians Richard Galliano, Vladimir Besfamilnov, Anatoly Semeshko, Viktor Vlasov, Eduard Gabnis, Valery Kovtun, Leonid Zatulovsky, Mirko Patarini and others.

Since 1987 Yan Tabachnik has performed with solo concerts in Austria, Finland, Poland, in the 90s he repeatedly traveled with tours of the USA, Canada, Germany, Australia, Great Britain, Israel and other countries. He became a laureate of numerous competitions and festivals, brought to Ukraine the award "Golden Menorah" recognized by the Jewish world community. The post-Soviet space traveled from Kushka to Dixon, from Sakhalin to the Carpathians, which is confirmed by the collection concert posters Yana Tabachnik, the oldest of which is over 50 years old.

Since 1976, he has released five giant discs at the All-Union company Melodiya. Sympho-jazz bands, bands and big bands participated in the creation of the recordings.

He has released 11 CDs, in two of which he is the author of music and song tests. The songs of Yan Tabachnik were taken into their repertoire by Iosif Kobzon, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Valentina Tolkunova and other famous artists. At the Alfred Mirek Harmonica Museum, one of the exposition stands is dedicated to the work of Jan Tabachnik.

http://www.zerkalo-nedeli.com/ 11/21/2003

Jan Tabachnik:

"For me, family and children are more important than all show business put together"

Jan Tabachnik - big man, popular, loved by the public and friends. He exudes confidence and serenity. And it seems that nothing can get through it. And what can touch a person who has lived a long and hard life, who has reached all the heights in music, the owner of the "Golden Accordion of Europe", the holder of the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker? Love!? Yan Tabachnik and Tatyana Nedelskaya are a couple famous for their romance, which began eight years ago and grew into a real, strong family.

Tatyana Nedelskaya: "I save it for myself"

Tatyana, they say, young, beautiful girls love to meet famous and wealthy men...

It's all nonsense. True, many still believe that I hunted. Well, let them count. I don't live to prove anything to anyone. I think that the proof of our love can be the words of Jan Petrovich, who once said: "You know, we live with you in such a way that even stones envy us." Yang is generally not very talkative about love, he proves everything with deeds. He is very gentle man. And let my enemies think that I hunted, and envy my prey. In fact, the crown of our love was the sons Pavlik and Petya. And soon another baby will be born. And all this talk and speculation is complete nonsense.

- But you have such a huge difference in age. Although in our time, marriage to a man who is much older than a woman is considered fashionable.

I don't feel this difference. She knew who she married. He was and is interesting person, which interested me as a person and just as a real man. And believe me, no fashion has nothing to do with it. At all times, a young woman was glad to have the opportunity to marry an already established man (and before the revolution, in general, an older chosen one was chosen for her daughter). It just wasn't customary to talk about it before. There are other pluses in such pairs. My husband will never see me grow old. Because in the eyes of an eighty-year-old man, a fifty-year-old woman is almost a girl. And for a hundred-year-old, a seventy-year-old is almost a first grader.

- I wonder what, in your opinion, means a real man?

You know, a man is not only the one who wears pants. My husband is friends like a man, he treats life like a man, he always acts like a man. And I love real men. Understand that if a woman lives in abundance, this does not mean that she is lucky. In addition, everyone knows that when we got married, he lived in a one-room apartment, and there were times when we borrowed a hundred dollars for the whole team. Therefore, I cannot say that I married a rich man. I fell in love with a real man.

- Tabachnik looked after beautifully?

Jan not only looked after me beautifully, he lives with me beautifully, spoils me all the time. Him amazing ability make gifts. He was generous with all the women who were dear to him, and this does him credit. For example, he can bring me a beautiful suit, and pick up tights for it. I was dismayed to imagine Jan, a serious, busy, always in a hurry man, picking up women's tights in a store. Both funny and touching.

- Are you a jealous wife?

Yes. And Yang too. But he never gave me a reason to be jealous, just like I did to him.

- How did your parents react to such an unequal marriage?

What about my parents? Mom said: "As long as you feel good." Jan is the breadwinner in our family. My parents moved to us in Kyiv and help to nurse the children.

- Does your husband have a favorite dish?

He is on a diet most of the time. When you manage to eat the usual Ukrainian borscht in my performance or fried potatoes he is extremely happy. So it is not difficult to imagine if there is anything more beloved in his understanding.

Don't know. When they do something wrong, the husband says: "This is Tanechka." And I answered: "No, Yashechka."

- Do you teach music to Senior Petya?

We don't teach him anything. He is very talented child. Wants to run - runs, wants to draw - draws. I specifically do not drive him to any circles. A child must have a childhood. The time will come, and he will learn everything himself.

- Are you strict parents?

Basically me. Our dad is kind.

- Yan Petrovich is a very busy person, often traveling. Do the kids miss him?

Of course, they are bored, but all evenings and weekends are given to them. Thank God we don't have any heavy touring.

- And how did the Kyiv singers, with whom your husband is friends, accept you?

Fine. There are very nice people with whom we are friends, for example, with Nadia Shestak. I am very close to her and I trust her very much. I like Ani Lorak, Katya Buzhinskaya, Zhenya Vlasova. I think they are great.

-Do you often quarrel with Jan Petrovich?

No. Of course, we have outbursts, but I can’t call it quarrels. Despite all the conflicts, I will never let us part. Even if it happens that he leaves, slamming the door, I will definitely call him and ask: "Did we quarrel with you?" He says no. Then I reply that I think so too. I really value Jan, and before starting a scandal, I will think a hundred times. I keep it for myself. God forbid, something happens to him. After all, everyone is well aware that he is older than me, and you can’t do anything against nature, but I don’t want to put up with this. I want to prolong his years, his happiness. And I believe that we will live long and die in one day.

- What is the main thing for you in life - family or career, which you are now intensively engaged in?

For me, both are important. I would not want my husband to put me in front of such a choice. It is easy for me to talk about this, because it is thanks to Jan that I am spared from earning a living with my songs. I sing for my pleasure. My husband loves me enough to let me do it.

- Are you pampering him?

Oh sure. But due to the fact that he is our breadwinner, I cannot pamper him with gifts, so I pamper him with my love. My behavior can be compared with the behavior of a puppy selflessly devoted to its owner. And if he did not respect me, such feelings would not arise. For example, I can hear by breathing whether he is sleeping or not. If he wakes up at night and gets up, I run after him. If I wake up in the middle of the night, he follows me. I'm not shy about talking about love first, I'm not shy about being the first to put up, I'm not shy about cleaning his shoes or tying his shoelaces. I want Jan to feel well-groomed, loved, needed. And she is ready to do everything for this.

- And he?

He too. I do not need to go and work at the expense of my family on weekends. And that's already a lot.

- How did you understand that Tatyana is your destiny?

Don't know! After all, it all started simply and even prosaically. She came to my team to work as a singer. And before her, many singers worked for me, but I never had an affair with any of them. Tanya was different. At that moment, when our relationship began, neither I nor she had anyone. So we didn't bother anyone. Thank God it's a family. We have been together for more than eight years, and I hope we will be together for the rest of our lives.

- Did the age difference bother you?

I will answer, as in the old joke. A seventy-year old man married an eighteen-year-old girl. They ask him: "What will you do with your wife in ten years? She will be twenty-eight, and you will be eighty!" - "Like what," the forever young husband answers, "I'm marrying an eighteen-year-old again!" Understand that life is unpredictable. Of course, you can’t put a scarf on someone else’s mouth, and I understand that our marriage is being discussed, but gossip didn’t reach me, probably because they know I won’t tolerate this. I don't have a harmless personality. And all the women who were next to me always felt like real women, starting from my attitude towards them, ending with their security. I do not think that Tanya got married by calculation. I don't run and spin my wife like a showman. When they ask me about her work, I always answer: "Sorry, I'm not her producer." Tatyana knows that I will not beg for her, and understands that I am, first of all, a man and a man of honor. I always told her: "If you are destined to be a singer, you will be, if not destined, then so be it." I don’t forbid her to sing, nevertheless she gives birth to my third child. Of course, I asked her the question, what is more important for her stage or family? She said, "The most important thing for me is you and my children." And, thank God, you know. Because for me, my wife and children are more important than the whole show business put together. And when I was offered a contract in Las Vegas four years ago, I had to say no. I couldn't leave Tanya and small child in Ukraine, and it was also unrealistic to take them with you. She would go crazy in a hotel with a baby and I would go with them. And so we live in this country among relatives and friends. If I had been offered the same thing twenty years ago, I would have left without hesitation.

- How did Tatyana's parents and your sister take your marriage?

I'll tell you an anecdote again. A Jew comes to a rabbi and asks: "Is it possible?" He says, "No, you can't." - "Is it possible?" - "No way". - "And this?" - "Never". Then the Jew breaks down: "But you do it?" And he told him: "Well, I don't ask anyone!" So here we are, no one asked. Yes, and Tanya and I signed when Petya was five years old and Pavlik was due to be born. And not because feelings were tested and something else. There was simply no time to register the relationship officially. We lived together, we had common property, and the child too. So it will soon be two years since Tatyana and I are officially husband and wife.

- Usually people try to create the same family that their parents had, of course, provided that the marriage was successful. Is your family similar to your parents' family?

I was born in a very poor family. And I can say that where there is poverty, there is decency, cordiality and hospitality, compassion and sympathy. There were two of us - me and my sister, and we never shared anything with her. When my parents died, in memory of our house and that life, he took a straw bread box and a wooden mug. They are still with me to this day. I also took my father's old Pobeda watch. And nothing more. My sister was always ready to support and help me. Although, what could she, a simple teacher? However, she was ready to share the latter. And it's wild for me when I see that anger and hatred reign in the family. Of course, I try to make my family look like my parents' family. I don't have any secrets from Tanya. From the first day we got together, I never hid anything from her. He immediately said: "Here is the money, you need it - take it." We never share finances: it's yours, it's mine. We generally ideal relationship perhaps because I am from a generation of the last idealists.

- You have two children, a third is coming soon ...

My children are everything to me in this life. Peter is already in second grade. What is he? Good and not spoiled. I generally try not to spoil them. Still glad that he is not a sneak. Comes from school, I ask: "How are you?" He told me: "It's okay." I see - a scratch, I say: "Did you fight?" - "Not". - "But honestly?" - "Then a little." - "With whom?" - "With Oleg." This is Nadia Shestak's son, they sit at the same desk and go to school together. Nadia is our godfather. In general, I just want him to grow up as a man.

- Whose character does he have?

I think mine. He is embarrassed to ask for something, to say something (just like I did in childhood). Although he feels relaxed with me and with Tanya. And when we are away, he grabs my hand and tries to hide. I don't like sassy people and sassy kids. Pavlik is now one and a half years old. He is more combative than Petya, and he can hit. The nature of the third is still unknown.

- Have you thought of a name yet?

Yes. We want to call Alyosha. In general, I really want my children to be happy and live in a normal country, so that they do not have to run away from here. I haven't left and I've been through everything. As soon as I left on tour, they immediately said that I would not return (there was even such an unofficial sweepstakes). However, despite everything, he always returned. Although no one was waiting for me here. Tanya was not there yet, there were no children, there was nothing like that. One of my comrades said: “Well, why should you go back there, what do you have there? An apartment - two thousand. Zhiguli - another thousand. Furniture - let another thousand. Total: four. And I give you twenty-five, and you won’t go anywhere you're going." But, as you can see, I returned, and, honestly, I do not regret it. Now I have a family and I have someone to live for.

- You said that Nadezhda Shestak is your godfather, and who else is your godfather?

Oh, I'm over thirty times Godfather. My friends consider me a benevolent and reliable person, therefore they seek to take me as godfather. I baptized Russians, Ukrainians, Jews, Poles, and Muslims. With almost all children, I maintain relationships and always help as much as possible. So I never got off with a formal congratulation on my birthday.

- Do you prefer to spend your free time with your family?

I have catastrophically little free time, but it all belongs to my wife and children. You see, everything has to be on time. And children should be born on time, and not at as many years as I am now. Therefore, I hasten to do for them as much good as possible. Indeed, in order to give birth to descendants, a lot of mind is not needed, another thing is to raise them and bring them to life. That, I'm afraid, is not enough time. I want the children to live better than I, who lived in a one-room apartment at 18 meters until the age of 50. She was a showy bachelor, and that suited me. Friends all said: "Yang, people don't live like that!" And when I had a family, everything changed. I had to do everything to make them live in normal conditions.

- Do you have traditions in your family?

Of course. The main thing is our birthdays, which we love to celebrate. We always welcome guests. Especially for them, I keep a bar with a lot of expensive and exotic drinks. I don't use it myself. Now we are moving to new apartment. And I asked Tatyana to buy a long table and 12 chairs. So that all guests can sit down normally and it was not necessary to substitute chairs and stools.

- Who visits you?

Only friends. Despite the fact that I am a public person, I will not tolerate any conjuncture in my house. people come to me different professions, and no matter what, the main thing is that I love them and they are interesting to me. They all have one quality that I value immensely - decency. After all, a decent person is moral, and a moral person is honest.

- In life, you are a sharp person and do not give offenders a descent ...

In general, by nature I am kind-hearted and very accommodating, but with me mutual language can only be found in a good way. My mom called me a bad lunatic. And she added: "If it were not for your kind disposition and quick-witted character, you would stand on the high road and kill people." According to the horoscope, I am Leo, a predator, and if something is not for me, I immediately rush to the victim. True, I quickly depart, and this saves many. In the family, I behave the same way, and then I repent for a long time.

No matter what they say Ukrainian nationalists about the special historical path of Ukraine and the cardinal differences in the mentality of Ukrainians and Russians, life itself says otherwise. The close centuries-old neighborhood of the two peoples, their common history sometimes lead to the simultaneous appearance in both countries of absolutely identical characters, indistinguishable from each other, like twins.

Take at least the music. For many decades in the USSR, and then in Russia, more than one official holiday concert can not do without Joseph Kobzon. With his patriotic-state repertoire, he represents the face of power and even became part of it. AT independent Russia Kobzon actively engaged in politics, many convocations State Duma representing the ruling party. However, the most titled singer in terms of the number of titles and state awards was born in the same, albeit eastern, but still Ukraine. Kobzon, in addition to the stage, successfully took root in big business, has huge connections among politicians and among the "shadow" bigwigs hidden from the eyes of law-abiding citizens of the world.

In Ukraine, now lives and lives its full counterpart. The name of the "Ukrainian Kobzon" is Yan Tabachnik. The Ukrainian patriarch of pop music still had a harder time creative way than his Russian counterpart. Kobzon has chosen at all times the most popular genre among the people pop vocal. Yan Tabachnik does not sing, but skillfully plays the accordion, for years carrying a rather weighty musical instrument. It's not even about his weight. Yet let the masterly performed instrumental musical compositions not so memorable and taken to the soul as the voice of the singer and the words of the song. However, people fell in love with the work of Jan Tabachnik. Real talent cannot be overlooked. The outcome of many years creative work there were 5 giant discs, 11 CDs released with works performed by Tabachnik. The master of the accordion himself successfully composed pop songs, sharing them with the same Iosif Kobzon, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Valentina Tolkunova.

Yan Tabachnik is a little younger than Kobzon. He was born in 1945 in Chernivtsi in the territory of the former Romania. From childhood, he sat down at the accordion and could not imagine life without it. Music then became his profession. He started in Kyiv as an accompanist in a circus. Then began a long touring life. Yan Tabachnik began to explore the vast expanses Soviet Union working in various philharmonic societies. At first it was Astrakhan, then neighboring Kalmykia.

Further, his path ran for Caucasian Range. He worked in Georgia for a long time, preferring southern Adjara. He returned to Ukraine closer to the declaration of independence as a well-known and wealthy artist, settling first in Odessa, and then in Kyiv. He is well known to the large Ukrainian diaspora in the United States and Canada, where he often visited with concerts. Huge popularity in his homeland was enjoyed by his author's program "I have the honor to invite", where Yan Tabachnik met with the most famous people in Ukraine.

Conventionally, the life of Jan Tabachnik can be divided into 2 halves. In the first, he earned himself fame in the world of music and money for a living, a “coven” with tours of the vast USSR, preferring to work in the southern philharmonics. This is, in fact, a repetition of the path on the stage of the honored artist of Chechen-Ingushetia Iosif Kobzon. AT mature years Yan Tabachnik began to actively collect titles, degrees and awards, gaining an impressive number of them. He was even more interested in connections with influential people in Ukraine. He is personally acquainted with all the presidents, prime ministers, oligarchs and more or less significant politicians. The authorities generously endowed him with attention.

The musician actively participated in the work of the All-Ukrainian Fund of Hope and Kindness, which was patronized by the wife of the second president of the country, Lyudmila Kuchma. The virtuoso did not miss a single charity event of the foundation, speaking in orphanages, boarding schools, nursing homes, as well as penal colonies and . With the leaders of the specific contingent, Yan Tabachnik also established good relations, having received from them the nickname Musician. Several times the Musician acted as an intermediary in resolving conflicts between authorities and law enforcement agencies. He himself was not seen in any. I was just friends with people with a difficult biography. He did not have to make excuses, like Kobzon, who was deprived of the right to visit the United States for suspicions in connection with.

Yan Tabanchik and Yanukovych

Presidents and prime ministers have changed in Ukraine, but Yan Tabachnik found a common language with each of them. The artist now speaks most of all kind words about Leonid Kuchma, who literally did not miss a single of his concerts. Kuchma contributed to the decision to allocate famous musician 6.2 hectares of capital land on the banks of the Dnieper. A truly royal gift. Market price the land plot was valued at $200 million. Viktor Yanukovych became another indisputable favorite for Yan Tabachnik. It was under the flag of his party that Tabachnik entered the Verkhovna Rada, where he remained for 3 convocations in a row.

For Yanukovych, the musician did a lot. He actively campaigned for him in the election rounds. Sometimes they campaigned with Kobzon together, performing at concerts. Most professional musician I liked his voice in the president. Yanukovych sang masterfully. Yan Tabachnik pulled him out on television in his program, and the whole of Ukraine was convinced that Yanukovych had singing talent.

Having lived all his life non-partisan, Yan Tabachnik found it necessary in his old age to receive a membership card of the Party of Regions for the only time in his life. Deputy Yan Tabachnik regularly appeared in the Verkhovna Rada, but was not as noticeable in it as on stage. For a long time in parliament, he never came up with a legislative initiative and did not even get to the podium, but he regularly voted. The "regionals" used the artist's hand as a voting mechanism.

Yan Tabanchik and Igor Zavadsky

Yan Tabachnik recalls those times with great nostalgia. He was at the pinnacle of fame and success. Today everything is different. matured in those years the main problem his present. Yan Tabachnik became a defendant in a high-profile criminal case. At the heart of criminality, oddly enough, was not commerce with its big money, but purely creative reasons. In the world of music, the master has a young competitor. They became Igor Zavadsky. Born in Russia's Komi, he conquered first Ukraine with his mastery of the accordion, and then collected many awards at international festivals. The glory of the virtuoso Tabachnik began to fade under the onslaught young talent. Old man kind of experienced creative competition. In the spirit of composers Mozart and Salieri.

In March 2012, a police squad raided the Kyiv apartment of Igor Zavadsky. The musician was arrested and taken to the Shevchenko district police department. For seven days a lawyer was not allowed to see him, and then they were not allowed to get acquainted with the case materials. In the department, Zavadsky was beaten so much that later they had to call him ambulance. The young musician himself later told reporters that he was simply tortured, trying to get a sincere confession from him. Zavadsky was accused of child molestation. The young victims, according to investigators, were the musician's students. The case went to court, and it began to crumble in parts. It was found that some of the witnesses simply slandered the musician for money or valuable gifts. The threads led in the direction of Jan Tabachnik. He acted as the customer of the criminal prosecution.

To questions about involvement in the case of Zavadsky, the former people's deputy answered very sharply, like a real redneck, abundantly using criminal jargon and gestures similar to the "fingering" of the inhabitants of prisons. Denying any part in the fabrication of charges, Yan Tabachnik at the same time confirmed that with his huge connections in the criminal world of Ukraine, he could simply physically destroy a competitor.

With Zavadsky and earlier happened unpleasant events. In 1999, while he was on tour, his apartment burned down. In 2006, the artist was beaten by unknown people right in the center of Kyiv on the Maidan. In 2003, a slanderous campaign was launched against him in the press. On the last day of the following year, he was awarded phone call Yan Tabachnik himself. Instead of New Year's greetings angry famous artist promised his colleague to tear off his head if he heard from anyone again in public a comparison not in his favor.

Apparently, Yan Tabachnik really understood that Zavadsky possessed something that he did not have, does not have, and will never appear again. Characteristically, it was established at the trial that the day after Zavadsky’s arrest, Yan Tabachnik made an emergency visit to another of his friends, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka, who is now known as a corrupt official and schemer. It turns out the accordion and music in terms of both selfish and expansive persons can be a dangerous occupation. Returning to the Russian-Ukrainian theme, Yan Tabachnik created a precedent for resolving creative differences. God forbid that in Russia his method is not adopted.

Place of birth, education. Born in Chernivtsi. In 1990 he graduated from the Melitopol State Pedagogical Institute with a degree in music and singing (qualification - teacher of music and singing).

Career. I picked up the accordion for the first time at the age of 10. This tool turned out to be associated with all further fate Tabachnik. From the age of 13 he began to work in semi-professional groups, and from the age of 16 he went to the professional stage.

1964-1966 - Variety artist of the Astrakhan Regional Philharmonic, musician-instrumentalist of the Philharmonic of the Georgian SSR.

1967-1968 - accordionist variety orchestra Philharmonic Society of the Southern Coast of Crimea.

1968-1969 - artistic director of the Pervomaisky district house of culture in Chernivtsi.

1969-1970 - artist, soloist-instrumentalist of the Adjara branch of the Georgian Philharmonic.

1970-1972 - director of the Pervomaisky district house of culture Chernivtsi.

1972-1973 - soloist-instrumentalist variety ensemble Adjarian Philharmonic.

1973-1994 - accompanist, artistic director folklore ensembles"Surmi", "New Day" of the House of Culture of the Railway Workers of the Zaporozhye Regional Philharmonic.

1995-2000 - work in the Odessa Municipal Theater of Music of Yan Tabachnik. In combination, in 1997-1998, he was a professor at the Department of Folk Instruments at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.

2000-2006 - Deputy CEO on social issues of enterprises with foreign investments Steel Track (Kyiv).

In 2006, 2007 and 2012 Yan Tabachnik becomes People's Deputy of Ukraine on the list. In the Verkhovna Rada of the 5th convocation, he served as First Deputy Head of the Committee on Spirituality and Culture. In the parliament of the VI and VII convocations, he works in the committee on combating organized crime and corruption as head of the subcommittee on control, coordination, information, analytical and research support for combating organized crime and corruption.

Member of the Party of Regions.

Views and assessments. Perhaps the "campaign" of the musician in politics was predetermined not only by long-standing friendship or friendly relations with many famous politicians periods of government and. In 2005, after the Orange Revolution, the maestro became very angry with the then Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, allegedly for making anti-Semitic statements against some cultural figures suspected of rejecting the "Maidan ideals." In addition, there was reason to be offended also for the fact that new government took away from Tabachnik a land plot of 8 hectares on the Dnieper embankment in the capital, where the famous accordionist planned to build an "international creative center".

Already in parliament, he explained the transition from the committee on cultural issues to the committee on combating corruption by the fact that he wants to "solve the problems of corrupt culture." "I don't know of a single festival in our country where there would be honest relations. Someone may say that this is an unfounded accusation. But I know how it's done! And I'm talking about festivals that are supported by budget money," - said the musician in an interview. However, the mass media somehow do not report on the active anti-corruption activities of the master. And the statistical base for recording speeches, deputy requests and submitted bills, posted on the website of the Verkhovna Rada, has not yet recorded the initiatives of parliamentarian Tabachnyk during the V-VI convocations.

The musician and deputy says that at one time he was friends even with his family. And assessing his relationship with those in power, Tabachnik said: “For me, Yushchenko, Kuchma, Kravchuk are the same. None of them gave me a thread. My main sponsor is my hump, with which I earned everything that I have ".

Social activity. Since 2000, Tabachnyk has been the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the All-Ukrainian Fund for Hope and Kindness. Honorary Professor of the Tel Aviv Conservatory and the Karl Lipinski Academy of Music.

Regalia. People's Artist of Ukraine. Full Commander of the Order of Merit. Holder of the titles "Golden Accordion of Europe", "Grand Maestro", laureate of the All-Russian Ovation Prize, etc. Doctor of Arts.

A family. Married. Wife - singer Tatyana Nedelskaya (born 1973). The musician has three sons - Peter (born 1996), Pavel (born 2000) and Mikhail (born 2002).

Also in Soviet times Yan Tabachnik was one of the most popular Ukrainian musicians. He is a holder of many orders, winner of dozens of awards, doctor of art history and philosophy. A few years ago, Yan Tabachnik entered politics, became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. About all this - about music, politics and life, we talked with Jan Tabachnik.

- Yan Petrovich, we Israelis have somewhat lost sight of you. So tell me first, how do you live? How are you?

When I ask the same question to one of my comrades, who is older than me, he says: "Well, what can I tell you? Worse than it was, but better than it will be." Everything happens in life, but everything seems to be fine. You can’t grumble at fate, so, God forbid, that everything goes on like this.

- They say that since childhood you wore the Star of David around your neck. This is true?

No, I didn’t wear it, because I simply didn’t have it - wearing a six-pointed star around the neck in the Soviet Union became fashionable about 20 years ago. But now I wear the Star of David, and as a child I wore it in my heart. I have never been a Zionist, but never in my life have I allowed myself to deny that I am a Jew. He did not boast of it, but he never refused either. I civilized man, traveled all over the world, worked with people various nationalities, I was friends with everyone, I am friends and will be friends. Why should I leave my Jewishness? And why should I stick it out? After all, it is as ugly as hiding it.

Was it scary to be a Jew in the Soviet Union?

Being a Jew is always scary.

- Even a famous person?

You understand that no matter what events happen, no matter how history turns, for some reason we always remain to blame for everything. When perestroika began, the famous Memory Society appeared. And even then, in those years, I said that "they are again looking for the guilty, and they are pulling the same, shaggy ones - the traditions of the stand are very strong even during perestroika." And I think that it will never, probably, go away, never. And we must be ready for this. We have the right to life, we have the right to fight for our existence, like any nation. We have a right to our own geniuses and celebrities, and to our own scoundrels and scum. We have the right to have our pride, our state, our flag. For thousands of years, scoundrels of various stripes tried to destroy us, but nothing came of them. Therefore, let everyone who dreams of us not being in the world put this thought out of their heads. The more people like them want to do it, the more they will pay for it. We are exactly the same people as everyone else - not smarter and not worse. We are ordinary. The same as everyone else.

- You once said a wonderful phrase - "to be a musician, it's the same as being a Jew - you also suffer all your life."

Yes unfortunately.

- What do you suffer more now?

I had to suffer twice in my life, both as a Jew and as a musician. But, you know, I think that I am both a happy person and a musician. I worked in different countries With the best musicians world, I have seen many celebrities, presidents, prime ministers, members of royal families, I have been friends with them and am friends. I think that I am also a happy Jew. Due to the fact that I live in a country like Ukraine, I bear the highest title and the highest awards of this country. It's a sin for me to complain about fate. I do not want, in general, to be ashamed. Yes, I sometimes had a hard time - like anyone else. So I don't think I suffered much. Well, maybe you wanted to achieve something not so hard work ...

- Your music has become a real decoration of the film "Babi Yar" ...

I wrote the music for this film quite by accident, and acted both as an author and as a performer. And I want to say frankly - every note was wept out there, and not only by me. When I heard this music great actress Elina Bystritskaya, it was just bad with her. Because it was done from the heart. In fact, at first it was planned that the music for "Babi Yar" would be written by another composer, but when the director heard my button accordion, he decided that it would be the leitmotif of the entire film. I had to repay the debt to those people who died at Babi Yar. And, thank God, I managed to do it at least partially.

- And what is happening in Babi Yar now? After all, there was a very unpleasant story with the raiders ...

There, in Babi Yar, there was a building that was bought by the Jewish community headed by Vadim Rabinovich. And then someone staged a raider attack and bought this building with false documents, and it began ... It is very fashionable in our country now - in this way huge factories, some buildings are leaving the hands of the owners, and now it has also reached Babi Yar turn. This is just blasphemy. When I found out about this, I wrote a parliamentary inquiry to the Prosecutor General. Now law enforcement agencies are doing it.

- Could you comment on what is happening now in Ukraine?

It is very difficult in Ukraine now. Historically, it has been Western Ukraine leans more towards the west. I myself am from those places, and my parents often recalled how they lived under the same Romanians. These constant talks about the fact that they had this and that, and then the Soviet power came - and that's it. Soviet power there was never much love in those places. Eastern Ukraine has always been pro-Russian, which is why it still leans more toward Russia. There are more Russian and Russian-speaking population. And so it turns out that the country has two different psychologies, two different directions. Although I think that neither eastern nor western Ukrainians want the division of the country, although such conversations go on all the time. At one time, even such an outstanding politician and, in my opinion, a man of genius, Vyacheslav Chornovil, said that Ukraine should be a federation. I, like all civilized people, believe that Ukraine should be united. But politicians do everything to split the country - they impose alien ideas, alien heroes. Well, what do you think, can Bandera be a hero for me, for example? For me, a man whose family was in a concentration camp, whose elder brother died there? Can a policeman be a hero for me? Naturally, no. Here you live in Israel - can you name at least one street named after Sverdlov, Trotsky, Kaganovich? No, you can't, because there are no such streets. But they were Jews by nationality and very famous people. But streets are not named after scoundrels and murderers, and I support this. Every nation has worthy people whom humanity should respect and exalt, and there are those who are better not to remember.

- Recently Ukrainian radio called you the second most imposing politician in Ukraine….

Actually, playing these games at the age of 60 is no longer very interesting. But it is an honor, and I am grateful to those who gave me this title. I did not count on such a recognition, and I did not build any illusions about this and do not build it. Well, they chose and chose.

- And how do you feel as a politician? Not tired?

So far, I cannot puff out my cheeks and say that I have succeeded in the political arena. Before becoming a politician, I was engaged in public work for more than 10 years, and this helped me a lot. Now I practically continue to do the same - I help the poor, the elderly. It is the duty of every person who can act and do something, especially today. And politics gave me this opportunity - to act. If earlier I could call some minister, and he decided whether he should even pick up the phone, today I come to this minister without a report and demand from him what I need. But to say that I have already taken place, like Shimon Peres, for example, I cannot. But I think that at my level I am doing everything to leave the parliament with the same clear conscience with which I came there. And it is very difficult to do this in our parliament. But I think yours too.

- As far as I know, you were one of the few who called Vakhtang Kikabidze and supported him when this whole story between Russia and Georgia happened ...

I considered it my duty to call him as my friend and say: "Vakhtang! Take your whole family and come. We have a free apartment - you can live here as long as you want. I will help you." We are tied long years friendship, and the duty of everyone normal person treat your friends like that. We must remember those who saved us and be grateful to them. Better to be a righteous Jew than a scoundrel Jew. And when Joseph Kobzon told Kikabidze that he was wrong, I told him: "You see, Joseph, Vakhtang belongs to a small people, just like us, so it's not necessary." Then Kobzon said that he had not thought about it. But I believe that Vakhtang did not have to give up the Order of Friendship. From anyone else - just not from him, because it is a symbol of peace.

- You are remembered and loved very much in the expanses of the former USSR. Don't you miss that time?

On the one hand, I miss you. Then there was an unusual geography of the tour - middle Asia, Caucasus, Far East... Ukraine is not a small country, especially on a European scale, but it cannot be compared with what it used to be. And when our artists say "Tour of Ukraine", it becomes funny to me. So what is this tour? Previously, we were not there for six months, for a year at home - we toured. Today, 24 regions pass in 10 days and they call it a tour. Reminds me of a joke about two administrators from the arts who drove artists around the country. And these administrators are listening to the news on the radio - they announce that German planes have bombed the city of Berdichev. The administrators say: "The city is also for me. A site for 500 seats."

- Are you going to perform in Israel?

Unfortunately, in the near future I simply will not be able to come to you, because I hardly go on stage. I was remembered by the audience as a temperamental artist and musician, the author of programs that I put on myself. Today I can't do it anymore. So why should I go on stage? When I go on stage for free, when people do not pay money for a ticket, then I do it calmly. Then I come, as a guest, to a friendly meeting with the audience. I can talk to people about creativity, tell them good words. And when people buy tickets, they want the artist to work. And it's simply impossible to work poorly here. I'm sorry when my colleagues don't understand this and go on stage anyway. But this is not from a good life. But, thank God, I am able to live without performances, I have enough to live on.

- And how do you feel about this country, Israel? What feelings does it evoke in you?

It is a beautiful and hospitable country with fast, brave people, built on sand, on blood, on stones... When I come here and see that something new has been built, I understand what has been done for this. This is a country that spends 45% of the budget on the war, which is constantly in a state of shock, because the enemies are killing its children ... We have false information about Israel on television - always only from one side, because television is a corrupt thing. And I always wonder - is it really so lacking money for those who show these shameless things. I'm not asking you to support either one or the other - I'm asking you to show the truth. After all, who wants to know the truth, he certainly knows. I know, and therefore I often come here, rest my soul. And I'm proud to be my people.

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Yan Tabachnik was born in Chernivtsi (Ukraine) on July 31, 1945. I picked up the accordion for the first time at the age of 10. The entire future fate of Y. Tabachnik turned out to be connected with this instrument. From the age of 13 he began to work in semi-professional groups, and from the age of 16 he went to the professional stage. He worked in the Astrakhan Regional Philharmonic, the Philharmonic of the Georgian SSR, was a soloist-instrumentalist of the Adzharian branch of the Georgian Philharmonic, artistic director folklore ensembles "Surmi", "New Day".

In 1990 he graduated from the Melitopol State Pedagogical Institute with a degree in music and singing (qualification - teacher of music and singing). In 1995-2000 he worked at the Odessa Municipal Theater of Music of Yan Tabachnik.

In 2006, he became a People's Deputy of Ukraine on the list of the Party of Regions. In the Verkhovna Rada of the 5th convocation, he served as the first deputy head of the Committee on Spirituality and Culture. In the Parliament of the VI convocation - in the Committee on Combating Organized Crime and Corruption.

Jan Tabachnik - National artist Ukraine, holder of the titles "Star Ukrainian stage", "Golden Accordion of Europe" and many others, Doctor of Arts and Philosophy, Professor of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Honorary Professor of the Tel Aviv Conservatory and Karel Lipinsky Academy.